Tachena Winterhalter was born in Oklahoma and shaped by a life of movement—living in Washington, Arkansas, Kansas, Virginia, North Carolina, Louisiana, New Mexico, Arizona, and Los Angeles before settling in Wichita, Kansas. Working primarily in acrylic, her surrealist expressionist paintings explore love, vulnerability, and human connection through layered color and symbolic storytelling. Influenced by constant transition and place, her work reflects emotional landscapes that feel both intimate and expansive, inviting viewers into dreamlike narratives shaped by memory, motion, and meaning.